HI GUYS. From ATHENS.

In case you are wondering why I’m saying hi from Athens now instead of two days ago like I was supposed to, it’s because this week sucks a giant butt. I was taking an antibiotic for an infected bug bite on my leg, which was an alternative to the antibiotic I’m allergic to. Except guess what? It turns out that I’m even MORE allergic to the alternative! Surprise!

So yeah, I got to miss my group flight while I got injected with hardcore steroids and things to get rid of my gross disgusting rash that sucked, and ended up flying by myself instead.

Which was SCARY. I pretty much never travel by myself. Here’s a list of things I did by myself for the first time ever today:

*boarded a plane
*hung out in a foreign airport
*rode in a cab
*followed around a taxi driver who had a sign with my name written on it
*sat for eight hours between two unconscious French people
*bought really gross coffee from a vending machine
*watched the airport security guards use metal detector wands to search a man’s giant
afro

Then I got picked up and driven to the apartments, which means I got to learn about the rules of Greek driving. Rule number one is accelerate really fast whenever you can. Rule number two is get as close to other people as you possibly can. I think this is because if you leave more than five inches of space a crazy person on a motorcycle will swerve in front of you, possibly with like a TV or something strapped to the back of it. Also pedestrians are five points each.

Also, I just went to dinner at an awesome café place with the thirty or so other BCA students, it was really really nice and outdoors and the owners got real excited and started relocating Greek customers so they could push a bunch of tables together for us. They also gave us free Greek yogurt with honey (BEST THING EVER) and free shots of Grappa (it burned). Also you could SEE THE ACROPOLIS FROM THE TABLE OMG OMG. Annnnd we walked around a lot and there were a bunch of bootleg merchants and dogs, and I can’t unlock Greek doors because they’re weird and have a knob in the middle for no reason. And I haven’t slept in over 24 hours now, I think, so I’m going to go take a crappy hand-held shower and go to bed.